The way of life

I attended a wedding once where the groom suffered a massive diarrhoea.
See, the society has a list of expectations once a person reaches a particular age. Marriage is at the top of that list. This is not determined by your current financial situation or your free will. To the society i know, you become of age, meet a person of the opposite sex that you get to know over a period of a year to two. Take them to meet the family and then get married. In the following year, you should be pregnant. Your baby should be approximately nine months older than your wedding. Then you live happily ever after.
So if you are a guy considered as an eligible bachelor, then you should have already located a woman who is willing to settle down with you for pro creation purposes. Failure to do so may carry fatal consequences, including being called names that are even worse than those possesed by our long gone African ancestors. In the end, people end up leading unhappy lives. Not because they did not choose wisely. It is usually because they end up in a situation they had not anticipated.
Now, back to diarrhoea. I knew the bride. We attended the same church. Well respected and well mannered. I bet she spent all her adult life working on being the perfect wife. She must have found herself in a predicament when she saw the sweating groom drag himself down the aisle. There was no music at the ceremony due to reasons not known to me. The hall was mainly packed with fellow church members who had come to join the couple celebrate. However, their joyous voices did not help alleviate the tension when they broke into song. I was part of the audience and since children sat in front,  i was lucky to witness the whole scene.
As young as i was, i felt sorry for the guy. He might have actually been sick but at that time, people were not as empathetic. When the Pastor stood up to give a short sermon, his bowels gave up on him. So the man of the cloth had to pause while the groom's best man helped him attend to his ablutions. And the people of God continued to fill the air with melodious music. This happened at least three times during the thirty minute sermon. The poor man spent the rest of his special day on water therapy to keep himself hydrated.
Now that the guy passed away a few years later, i can safely say that the marriage killed him softly. Maybe he was not prepared for it. Maybe he didnt have feelings for the lady. Maybe he didnt even like the idea of married life. What i know is that he could have thrived better if he had focused more on his health than his unfruitful attempt at pleasing the society and his long gone ancestors.